“You know why the trees smell the way they
do”? Murphy asked looking up from her hammering.
“Sap?” Logan guessed. “Chlorophyll?”
Murphy shook her head. “Stars. Trees breathe in starlight year after year, and
it goes deep into their bones. So when you cut a tree open, you smell a hundred
years’ worth of light. Ancient starlight that took millions of years to reach
earth. That’s why trees
smell so beautiful and old”.”

lördag 23 juni 2012

fredag 22 juni 2012

Reaching outside my comfort zone entails some risk … and this could easily make me stay, never venture out into the world. But it is out there that you are. All. Of. You. With life stories that I love to hear and learn from.

When we listen to the life story of another we are treading on holy ground and we have no other option than to treat this story with love. And when we do, it can change our lives. That is the risk.

"To love is to be responsible like this in everything: the work we do, the things we buy, the food we eat, the people we look up to, the movies we see, the words we use, every choice we make from morning till night. That is the real measure of love; it is a wonderfully demanding responsibility." - Eknath Easwaran

tisdag 19 juni 2012

“Live today. Not
yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don’t rent them out
to tomorrow. Do you know what you’re doing when you spend a moment wondering
how things are going to turn out ...? You’re cheating yourself out of
today. Today is calling to you, trying to get your attention, but you’re stuck
on tomorrow, and today trickles away like water down a drain. You wake up the
next morning and that today you wasted is gone forever. It’s now yesterday.
Some of those moments may have had wonderful things in store for you, but now
you’ll never know.”

torsdag 14 juni 2012

“Sometimes there are things in our life that aren’t meant to stay. Sometimes change may not be what we want. Sometimes change is what we really need. And sometimes saying goodbye is the hardest thing you think you’ll ever have to do, but sometimes it’s saying ‘hello again’ that breaks you down and makes you the most vulnerable person you’ll ever know. Sometimes change is too much to bear, but most of the time change is the only thing saving your life.”

tisdag 12 juni 2012

Don't speak to me about your religion; first show it to me in how you treat other people. Don't tell me how much you love your God; show me in how much you love all God's children. Don't preach to me your passion for your faith; teach me through your compassion for your neighbors. In the end, I'm not as interested in what you have to tell or sell as I am in how you choose to live and give.

597 …
Walking along Bohusleden on a
summers day
598 … Listening to the cuckoo – just a few meters away
599 … Mr. Right blowing at the Dandelions so that I can take photos to my heart’s
content
600 … Birdsong early in the morning and late at night
601 … The wonderful feeling of an unspoiled summers vacation lying ahead – not yet
started
602 … The feeling of discovering prayer for the first time – every time. Why
now?
603 … Cozy sofa-evenings
604 … Rain taking all the must-do’s off the to-do-outside-list – allowing reading
605 … Becoming Real – reading The
Velveteen Rabbit

“What is REAL?" asked the Velveteen Rabbit one day... "Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?" "Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse. "It's a thing that happens to you. When [someone] loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real." "Does it hurt?" asked the Rabbit. "Sometimes," said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. "When you are Real you don't mind being hurt." "Does it happen all at once, like being wound up," he asked, "or bit by bit?" "It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse. "You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't often happen to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. "Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand... once you are Real you can't become unreal again. It lasts for always.”

To feel secure on this road that is life we all try to figure out what is beyond the next bend. Preparing ourselves for what is to come. We often imagine the things we would like for us to happen. And not to happen! Too often we do this. You see, it is not the failures that brings us difficulties in life… it is the high expectations.

“Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don’t rent them out to tomorrow. Do you know what you’re doing when you spend a moment wondering how things are going to turn out ...?You’re cheating yourself out of today. Today is calling to you, trying to get your attention, but you’re stuck on tomorrow, and today trickles away like water down a drain. You wake up the next morning and that today you wasted is gone forever. It’s now yesterday. Some of those moments may have had wonderful things in store for you , but now you’ll never know.” ― Jerry Spinelli, Love, Stargirl